Beautiful April!

Sure signs that Spring is on it’s way. We are enjoying our days outside with the sunshine and warmer temperatures. An exciting time of planning and seed starting and organizing the rotation and planting schedule in the garden.

The hoop house packed with Spring Share goodies!

We have to keep an eye on things in the hoop house as the temperature can rise quickly.

We are so pleased with the how well the hoop house is growing. Scott had to double row cover the crops last week with the overnight cold but when he peeked under the cloth it was a comfortable 40 degrees with outside air temperature in the low teens. Relief! All of the leafy greens have doubled in size and I planted a long LONG! section of Swiss chard and fennel this week. We had to squeeze these crops in and harvesting will be tight but we will dance around and not wear our big garden boots and it should all work out and it is so worth it! Nothing better then Spring Greens. We’ve started to harvest Spinach and expect a bounty harvest next week…..Spring is rolling in fast around here.

That pretty Red Kitten Spinach. A favorite!

More Red Kitten….Look at it all!

Scott caught me weeding (and smiling)…a fun and relaxing job at the start of the season. At the end of a season-not so much fun. I am going to enjoy now.

Other big deals around here…our organic seed potatoes arrived. All 300 pounds of them! We are hoping for 10-13 pounds of harvested potatoes for every 1 pound planted. That’s a lot of potatoes….! We have a pretty good planting routine so it doesn’t take too long to get it all in the ground. Depending on the weather we will start planting mid April.

Scott and Maeve with 300 pounds of seed potatoes.

Outside spinach was seeded in this week. Maeve is giving it a drink.

And miles and miles and miles of peas were planted by hand…….sugar snap, shelling, and snow.

Pea planting.

well, maybe not miles and miles and miles but at the end of the BIG! job my back sure felt like I crawled around on the ground that far all day.

We are getting the garden ready for a bit of tilling and prepped for planting… Loose ends getting cleaned up for mulch laying. It is a dry Spring and we think we will be getting in the garden sooner this year.

Scott pulling out the brussels sprouts “stumps” from the late season thanksgiving harvest. The ground froze before we could do this final duty.

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